It's been an eventful 12 days. It began with having 5 nights of free camping. We had a coupon included in the initial package of "baubles" they gave us when we bought the Trekker. It was time to cash them in. For our 12 nights we would only have to pay for 7. Cha-Ching!
Just as a matter of serendipity but last weekend (Friday-Saturday and Sunday) they had Bob Tiffin and numerous of the front office personnel here for a "2015 Tiffin Product Line Introduction Rally". I decided we should go just to see the newest offerings and talk with Bob and Danny Inman again.
They had the newest Allegro Bus 45 here. It is our Bus on 'roids. It is built on a new Freightliner Chassis which has a Front Axle with an 18000 lbs GAWR. It has a 600hp Cummins Engine. It is a monster. I'll bet it gets 2-3 miles per gallon. Because of its 31.5 wheels all the way around it sits about 5" higher on the road than the Trekker. The one here is called a 45HL. They are also making another floorplan on this chassis, the 45OL (or it could be an OP). It was nice to see the newest line-up. It also convinced us again that the Trekker is the best of all the available RVs and the mods we have made to it only made it better.
Another thing we wanted to accomplish while we were here was to get our new wifi antenna and external cell antenna installed. We asked to make an appointment the day we came and were told they had a cancellation so they could fit us in at 9 AM on the 16th. So on the night of the 15th we moved over from the Lazy Days Campground to the Lazy Days Crown Club Service area (which is free). It ends up that even though the appointment was for the 16th that THAT isn't the appointment to get worked on, but an appointment with a Service Advisor to SCHEDULE the actual work. So we got worked on yesterday. Here are pictures of the new antennas and our new wifi service area in the rear of the Trekker.
The above picture shows the finished products: A RogueWave Long Range Marine WiFi antenna on the right (the white one) and on the left side of the ladder (with the black "thimble" on top of it on the left side of the antenna).
Below is a picture of where they had to drill through the Trekker's roof down into the rig itself. We had them put it in the very back of the rig - in the closet/washer/dryer area - on the driver's side. The white "goop" is a self-leveling weather impervious caulk designed specifically for RV roof usage.
Another thing we wanted to accomplish while we were here was to get our new wifi antenna and external cell antenna installed. We asked to make an appointment the day we came and were told they had a cancellation so they could fit us in at 9 AM on the 16th. So on the night of the 15th we moved over from the Lazy Days Campground to the Lazy Days Crown Club Service area (which is free). It ends up that even though the appointment was for the 16th that THAT isn't the appointment to get worked on, but an appointment with a Service Advisor to SCHEDULE the actual work. So we got worked on yesterday. Here are pictures of the new antennas and our new wifi service area in the rear of the Trekker.
The above picture shows the finished products: A RogueWave Long Range Marine WiFi antenna on the right (the white one) and on the left side of the ladder (with the black "thimble" on top of it on the left side of the antenna).
Below is a picture of where they had to drill through the Trekker's roof down into the rig itself. We had them put it in the very back of the rig - in the closet/washer/dryer area - on the driver's side. The white "goop" is a self-leveling weather impervious caulk designed specifically for RV roof usage.
The picture below shows the plastic black "grommet" that they put into the bottom of the hole they had drilled to give it a more "finished" look. Unfortunately they didn't have a white one they could use. The black wire is from the External Cell Antenna and the Gray-White wire is from the WaveRogue WiFi antenna.
The picture above shows (on the right toward the top) our MBR95 cradlepoint wireless router. Right in the middle of the photo is our Wilson Signal booster. Under it (literally) is our Novatel Wifi Jetpack which was sold to us by Verizon our WiFi signal carrier. The Jetpack is picked up by the router since we have the router set to "Wireless as WAN (Wide Area Network)." The black wire going out of the Wilson Signal Booster goes up to the External Cell Antenna. The gray-white wire which enters into the black connector wit 2 green LEDs on it comes down from the WaveRogue WiFi antenna.
Tomorrow we are going to Green Cove Springs to pick up our mail. Irene's got 3 packages which would be monstrously expensive to ship to here and would get caught up in the Christmas Mail rush. So we are taking the day to go get it all. It's a 3 hour drive - ONE WAY.
Merry Christmas, safe travels and we can't wait to see you back at Retama. Folks keep asking about you guys. We're not in our house yet. We did our walk yesterday and plan to close when we get back here on Dec. 29th. Off to Indiana we go!
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